A Factory Outlet Of Cut-rate Items Anarcho-cynicalism

April 28, 1985|By Rob Morse, of the Sentinel staff

On this, the 10th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, an extremely nasty broadsheet arrives from a group known as the Orlando Anarchists. This is the cadre whose main revolutionary action has been to paint ''Work stinks'' on Orlando buildings. The latest thing that stinks, according to this broadsheet, is Vietnam veterans. The Orlando Anarchists refer to them as ''creepy butchers and psychotics parading around in flak jackets and fatigues.'' There is worse, but it doesn't bear repeating. All I can say is, the Orlando Anarchists are from another planet. Even in the '60s, in the most deluded cells of the radical anti-war movement, you could not find anyone so out of touch with reality as to blame the Vietnam War on the 19-year-old working-class kids who fought it. Orlando needs better quality left-wing nuts to reach parity with the right-wing nuts. The Orlando Anarchists' work stinks.

NAKED CAME THE PULITZER

Big week for UCF. The University of Central Florida won more Pulitzer Prizes than The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal combined. Those august newspapers collected exactly none of journalism's most prestigious awards this year, while UCF took two -- at least, its students and alumni did. Jack Reed, 39, who has an M.A. from UCF, won a Pulitzer for investigative pieces at the St. Petersburg Times. Jackie Crosby, 23, now enrolled in the Masters in Business Administration program at UCF, won a Pulitzer for specialized reporting at the Macon Telegraph and News in Georgia. How amazing is it for Crosby to win the Pulitzer? Only slightly less amazing than a medical school dropout winning the Nobel Prize for medicine. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Crosby worked for less than a year on the Macon paper and The Orlando Sentinel. She decided to change fields and go into business, and then what happens? ''At 2 o'clock Wednesday I was taking an accounting test. By 3:30 I was a Pulitzer Prize winner,'' she said. ''It's really weird.'' Yes, she has received some offers from newspapers since winning the award, but she said she may not go back to journalism. She will just wait and see. ''One thing about a Pulitzer, you always have it,'' she said. But wouldn't she like to send out a resume or two, just to be able to write ''Pulitzer Prize'' on it? ''Yeah,'' she says. ''I could put it under 'awards' at the bottom, right under my Red and Black Award from the University of Georgia.'' A great sense of perspective . . . The other Pulitzer results are in, too, the ones from Playboy. Roxanne Pulitzer, the Palm Beach matron who put the S on trumpet, gets a 7 out of a possible 10, losing points because of the self-conscious tackiness of the photo spread. For starters, Foxy Roxy is photographed in bed with a menage of trumpets and French horns. It's hard to tell who's the brassiest. Frankly, I'll take the other Pulitzer, and I don't mean Peter.

CALLING DR. RUTH

The women of NOW are holding their state conference in St. Petersburg Beach this weekend, and it looks like a humdinger. The news release begins: ''Washington media consultants to present workshop on media intercourse, mutual satisfaction, at the Florida National Organization for Women state conference.'' Who says they are strident and don't know how to have fun? . . . The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America is now out in paperback, and Walt Disney Productions has been dropped from the original list. The new pay scales at Disneyland in Anaheim left people bitter and destroyed ''a kind of family feeling,'' according to author Milton Moskowitz. Apparently, whistling while you work just doesn't do it anymore . . . Fay Wry wants to know: ''Will Rod Luck produce and co-star in the prison diaries of Denny McLain?'' If so, will Luck please stop calling the convicted dope trafficker ''buddy?'' . . . Hooked on Aptonyms: Where does a biologist named Wes Fish work? Where else? At the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission . . . And I thought we got rid of X-rated notices in the paper. There it was in Friday's Orange Sentinel, a hobbies and recreation listing for ''Adult lap swimming.'' Sure it is a water sport.